Galveston Daily News / October 6, 1892.
A BLOODY DAY AT COFFEYVILLE FOR BOTH SIDES.
The Place Strewed With Corpses of Robbers, Officers and Citizens -- The Plot and the Battle Described.
COFFEYVILLE, Kan., Oct. 5. -- The Dalton gang has been exterminated -- wiped off the face of the earth. They were to-day shot down, but not until four citizens of this place yielded up their lives in the work of extermination. Six of the gang rode into town this morning and robbed two banks. The raid became known to the officers of the law, and when the bandits attempted to escape they were attacked by the marshal's posse. In the battle which ensued four of the desperadoes were killed outright, and one so fatally wounded that he has since died. The other